According to Donald Lu, President Biden requested $1.1 million in funding for Pakistan.

Donald Lu provided details about Pakistan’s predicament to members of the US House of Representatives Committee.

United States support for democracy and human rights in Pakistan is the main priority, according to Lu.

The money will go towards debt reduction, economic reforms, and supporting Pakistan in its war against terrorism. According to Lu, Pakistan’s economy will be able to stabilize with the assistance.

Donald Lu is a who?
With nearly thirty years of experience in the US government, Lu is a foreign service officer.

The dispute around the “cipher,” as it is known in Pakistan, revolves around the US official. This has to do with a purported diplomatic correspondence that the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) claimed proved his removal from office as prime minister (PM) was part of a US conspiracy to remove him

Khan has made several charges that Washington has refuted.

The US assistant secretary of state declared: “Imran Khan’s cipher conspiracy theory is a lie [and] it is a complete falsehood” in testimony before a subcommittee of the US panel.

“It is not precise. It makes no accusations whatsoever about me or the US administration going against Imran Khan. Thirdly, there was no conspiracy, according to testimony given to his own government by the other meeting participant, the Pakistani ambassador to the US at the time.

Donald Lu is the senior US diplomat assigned to the State Department to oversee relations with South and Central Asia, holding the position of assistant secretary of state.